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Walcheren island, whose capture opened the port of Antwerp to the Allies. Other sites seemed to be located in the Dutch coastal area north of the Maas. The London Evening Standard described the launching apparatus as a steel platform slightly bigger than a tennis court. "During actual launching operations," said the Standard, "the ramp is constantly sprayed with jets of ice-cold water because as the rocket shoots into the air, heat develops which expands the steel frame . . . and bends...
...flamethrower to kill weeds. Running along the ground between rows, this torch-like apparatus, while burning off weeds, left the thicker cotton stems unharmed...
...other members of the recording industry's "big three" (Columbia, Decca) agreed. Experiments with wire and film had revealed a number of shortcomings. The cost of apparatus for playing wire and film recordings is still too high ($400 to $600). The quality of tone, at present, is inferior to that of discs. Experts conceded a limited postwar use for wire recording as developed by the U.S. armed forces, thought the wire recorder might in time replace dictaphones. But wire recordings cannot be printed from master records, like discs. Each must be re-recorded from the master, separately. With...
Durham's City Councillors had approved the plant. As blueprinted, it would rise above the River Wear 300 yards from the city line. Its smokestacks and cooling apparatus would undoubtedly smear the cross-river view of the cathedral's square-towered majesty. Stiffening his sinews, summoning up his blood, Dean Alington cried: "This proposed erection is an outrage. I shall fight it with all my power...
Several hundred experimental transfusions have been made with enlisted men volunteering to test it, pumping blood out of one arm and sending it back into the other. Majors Emerson and Ebert themselves submitted to the most crucial tests and in no case did a fever reaction occur. The new apparatus should be extremely valuable in saving the lives of wounded soldiers on the field...